Kim Jong-il immortalised in North Korea - video

North Korea issues a special report saying that the body of late leader Kim Jong-il will be laid in state permanently, at the same mausoleum housing his father and the country's founder Kim Il-sung. The North's state-run television KRT also said a statue would be erected in Kim Jong-il's honour. Pyongyang citizens welcomed the news

After news of his marriage to Ri Sol-ju emerged this week, the North Korean supreme leader made the relationship public by taking her on a tour of the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground, a new amusement park in the capital, Pyongyang